Roman roads
Roman roads are roads that the Romans build to make sure that messages and people could move easily round the Empire.[1] The roads were helpful for armies, officials, civilians, messengers, and traders.[2] All the roads put together were more than 40,000 kilometres (25,000 miles) long, and 8,500 kilometres (5,300 mi) of the roads are made of stone.[3][4]
Roman Roads Media
A Roman street in Pompeii
The Roman Empire in the time of Hadrian (r. 117–138), showing the network of main Roman roads.
Roman roads animation in Latin with English subtitles
Old Roman road, leading from Jerusalem to Beit Gubrin, adjacent to regional highway 375 in Israel
The central road of Aeclanum.
Road construction shown on Trajan's Column in Rome
Section of the Via delle Gallie (Valle d'Aosta), built by digging the steep rock slope
Dorsum or agger viae: the elliptical surface or crown of the road (media stratae eminentia) made of polygonal blocks of silex (basaltic lava) or rectangular blocks of saxum quadratum (travertine, peperino, or other stone of the country). The upper surface was designed to cast off rain or water like the shell of a tortoise.
A road in Pompeii, paved with polygonal paving stones
The remains of Emperor Trajan's route along the Danube (see Roman Serbia)
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References
- ↑ Forbes, Robert James (1993). Studies in ancient technology, Volume 2. Brill. p. 146. ISBN 978-90-04-00622-5.
- ↑ Kaszynski, William 2000. The American Highway: the history and culture of roads in the United States. Jefferson N.C.: McFarland. Page 9
- ↑ Gabriel, Richard A. The Great Armies of Antiquity. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2002. Page 9.
- ↑ Michael Grant, History of Rome (New York: Charles Scribner, 1978), 264.
- see also Roman roads in Britain
